Professor Diana Laurillard has made a foundational contribution to higher education teaching. Her books Rethinking university teaching and Teaching as a design science have influenced many online educators – me included!

Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/023-Diana-Laurillard-Final.mp3 | recorded April 2019

Diana’s profile: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=DMLAU06

Nominated links (free to access):

Learning Designer tool for teachers at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/learning-designer/ Keynote on Co-designing virtual scenarios for learning, WAVES Conference, on medical education, London 2018, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXINHykjGbc&t=80s (30 mins) Future Classroom Lab Interview ‘Teaching as a design science’, 2014 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO25Uxwfd1Q&t=112s (5 mins) Video lecture from Blended Learning Essentials: Getting Started, 2016 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inp26YryqIA (5 mins)

Published works you may wish to purchase:

Diana Laurillard (2012). Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology. London: Routledge Diana Laurillard (2002). Rethinking University Teaching: A Conversational Framework for the Effective Use of Learning Technologies. 2nd edition. London: RoutledgeFalmer

Twitter: @thinksitthrough